Flashback Friday: New Orleans' Claudette Carrida Jeffrey

In 2015, we spotlighted "The Color of Life," the second book in the Claire Soublet Series by Claudette Carrida Jeffrey, a native of New Orleans who now lives in Northern California. She is also the author of the novel, "A Brown Paper Bag and A Fine Tooth Comb." 

Here’s the book description:

Claire Soublet's great-aunt Sera is a dressmaker in New Orleans's French Quarter in the early 1900s. With her blue eyes and blond hair, no one knows she's a woman of color. Even though Claire lives with her for years before her death, she does not learn they are related or how her great-aunt lived until she receives her memoir.

Jeffrey was born and raised in New Orleans’s Seventh Ward, attending Corpus Christi Elementary School and J.S. Clark High School. Her grandfather, Louis Smith, was one of the Autocrat Club founders. Her great-aunt, Mary V. Rilley, a teacher, was influential in Claudette’s young life. After high school, Claudette moved to New York City where she married and started a family. In southern California, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern California and a Teaching Credential from California State University at Northridge. She’s retired and lives in northern California.

Louisiana Book News is written by award-winning author Chere Dastugue Coen, who writes Louisiana romances and mysteries under the pen name of Cherie Claire. Her first book in each series is FREE to download as an ebook, including "Emilie," book one of The Cajun Series, "Ticket to Paradise," book one of The Cajun Embassy series and "A Ghost of a Chance," the first Viola Valentine mystery.